4 x C?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm



Something in this galaxy started sending out powerful radio waves a year ago and has been holding steady ever since.

Energy emissions in radio wavelengths are shining from a source in galaxy M82, otherwise known as the Cigar Galaxy. The fact that nothing like it has ever been seen before has created something of a stir among astrophysicists, according to a recent press release.

Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics believes that the radio source could be a large black hole pulling matter into an accretion disk, where it is being accelerated to high velocities. Perhaps the strangest aspect to the phenomenon is that it appears to be moving across the sky at four times the speed of light.

Astronomers do not think that the apparent motion really exceeds light speed, but that it is moving almost as fast as light at a particular angle creating an optical illusion. Some "matter jets" shooting out of active galactic nuclei also seem to travel faster than light, so Muxlow thinks that effect could be happening in M82.

[MineralMan]

1. Was it a clear channel station? Did they carry Rush?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. I meant to say, 4 x C which seems totally ridiculous at the onset. Good one on

you though, chuckle chuckle.

[ddeclue]

2. We're following their warp signature Captain..

:bounce:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. The Cigar Galaxy?

:tinfoilhat:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Most excellent, hangs around with the crab nebula. n/t

[Drale]

6. Maybe its an alien civilizations version of SETI

or maybe its some crazy thing where its humans from the future, but somehow they got sent to the past and are trying to contact earth, but they don't realize its the past?

[ddeclue]

7. Yeah.. well when they start seeing current reality TV on their receivers..

expect the signal to suddenly disappear..

[frebrd]

8. Yes... "when they start seeing current reality TV on their receivers"....

they'll re-orient their equipment and look elsewhere!

:)